The video was shared in similar posts on X, YouTube, Snack video It is TikTokwhich has accumulated over 485,000 views in total.
It is estimated that at least 17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied or separated from their parents, UNICEF he said in February (archived link).
Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto he said in June that the world’s largest Muslim-majority country was ready to remove children from Palestinian territory (archived link).
The war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas’ unprecedented attack on October 7, which resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP report based on Israeli figures.
The militants captured 251 hostages, 116 of whom are still in Gaza, including 42 who the military says are dead.
Israel responded with a military offensive that killed more than 38,700 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to data provided by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Irbid Camp
The video is overlaid with the handle “@awatiHidajat”.
An Instagram search found that the account belongs to Kristinawati Hidajatfundraising platform president Golden Future Indonesia (archived links here It is here)
She posted the video on Instagram in June 21identifying the location as Irbid refugee camp in northern Jordan (archived link).
“I am currently in the Palestinian camp, precisely in the Irbid area, on the border of Syria and Jordan,” she wrote.
“These Palestinian orphans were all excited when we went to treat them. We ate and shared gifts of chocolate, sweets, cookies and they also chose the toys they liked. We spent about $45 for each of the orphans. (to donate)!”
O Irbid Camp was created in 1951 to shelter Palestinian refugees who fled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War (archived link).
Below is a comparison of the screenshot of the fake post (left) and Kristinawati Hidajat’s Instagram video (right):
Separate Facebook post On June 25, she rejected claims that the video showed Palestinian children brought to Indonesia and staying in a hotel (archived link).
Footage showed the Irbid camp on June 19 during Tasyrik Eid al-Adha, she wrote, referring the three days following the Muslim holiday of Eid.
She said her team distributed Eid meals and gifts to “hundreds of Palestinian orphans.”
The director of information and media at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hartyo Harkomoyo, confirmed to AFP that the video was not filmed in Indonesia.
AFP verified more misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war here.
